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Winter Fuel Payment Motion

Spinney Hill Lib Dem Councillor, Mussa Saleh, placed a motion forward at the last full council meeting to ask the authority is to write to Tony Blair asking for the benefit of winter fuel payments to be increased.

30 Jan 2007
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Ex-MP battles NHS over eye drug

A former Halifax MP says she may go to the High Court to force the NHS to provide a drug which she says could help her failing sight. Alice Mahon, 69, lost most of the sight in one eye due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and expects to lose it in the other.

30 Jan 2007
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Councils 'failing disabled young'

Thousands of severely disabled young people are being let down by local authorities who fail to plan care for them as adults, a report has said. The Commission for Social Care Inspection is calling for urgent action to ensure disabled children continue to get the help they need into adulthood.

30 Jan 2007
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